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Building Hydrogen from source (Windows)

Sebastian Moors edited this page May 23, 2021 · 9 revisions

Introduction

Since Hydrogen 1.1, the easiest way to build Hydrogen from source is by using msys2. Msys2 is "Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows" which provides all necessary packages for Hydrogen's dependencies. The packages already contain binaries, so the time-consuming compilation of dependencies can be omitted.

We're providing a powershell build script which automates the process of building Hydrogen (including the installation of most of the necessary dependencies). By using the script, the build process can also be done by non-developers and requires (in the best case..) only very basic skills.

In addition, this pages describes how to Debug Hydrogen on windows.

Prepare your build system

  1. Install msys2

Go to https://www.msys2.org/ and download the Installer. Run the installer on your system.

  1. Install python:

Building Hydrogen

Debugging Hydrogen